"What if nothing could stop me from eating several bags of chips a day? What if I ate so many chips that I swelled up like that kid from Willy Wonkaand died?
So, what changed for me? The easy answer is that I simply acknowledged that many people eat chips on the regular and they have not died from it."
"I needed a break from serious relationships. Instead, I set better boundaries with casual hook ups and was upfront about my limited emotional availability. One of these hook ups pinned me down, stealthed me (non-consentually removed a condom during sex) and ignored two more hard, verbal no's before finally letting me go. The detachment with which he did this was alarming, and I left stunned, but also oddly resigned. The dissociation that followed prevented me from even believing I'd been sexually assaulted. At first."
"Even though I was dimly aware that these compliments were problematic, I couldn't help but feel flattered. I had never before considered thin bodies to be "better" or more desirable, but once the compliments started rolling in, I noticed thinner-is-better rhetoric everywhere: in fashion, in media, in my friends' disparaging comments about their own bodies. The omnipresence of this rhetoric made it easy for me to believe it was valid, even true."
"Even though I was dimly aware that these compliments were problematic, I couldn't help but feel flattered. I had never before considered thin bodies to be "better" or more desirable, but once the compliments started rolling in, I noticed thinner-is-better rhetoric everywhere: in fashion, in media, in my friends' disparaging comments about their own bodies. The omnipresence of this rhetoric made it easy for me to believe it was valid, even true."
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